11:30pm. Katie had a very busy day. Well, sort of busy. She had two visitors who weren’t nurses.
This morning our friend Mary stopped over after church for a short visit…very short, since she’s a doctor so she understands that recovering patients get tired from long visits. It was so nice to see her, though. As a doctor, she has given Katie (and me!) many tips on what to expect before, during, and after the operation, which made it so nice for us to have a general idea of what to expect. She was always very respectful to the operating doctor, though, by telling us the tidbits without anywhere near treading on “his territory”. It was always very useful general information; nothing specific to how she would do something better or differently, etc. She’s a wonderful person and would never stoop to disparaging another doctor. The general info on the effect the muscles have on the body, if your body twitches then it’s normal, etc. Even down to letting me know that as the mother/caretaker, I’m going to be more exhausted than I thought….and that’s normal and ok.
After Mary left, Katie was very tired so she fell asleep on the upstairs couch. Poor baby. Even though she slept for almost 8 hours last night, she was still tired from just waking up in the morning, getting a shower, and having a visit.
In the later afternoon, our friend Abby came over. Partly to visit Katie, and partly to visit all of us since she was in Bangor. She lives in Machias, so whenever she gets to Bangor it’s always nice to see her. She and her sister Lori are like other daughters to me. Love ‘em! It was nice because she came over just as Katie, Alex, and I were starting to take Katie’s first walk of the day. Abby joined us in Katie’s first day of reaching the sidewalk around the park in less than 3.5 minutes. Yay!!
Katie is up to a 7 minute walk, so we do 3 minutes 30 seconds one way, then the same back to the house. Won’t be too long and we’ll be going all the way around the park!!
So far so good with these pain pills. She doesn’t seem allergic to them. Thank Goodness. She’s still taking the Benadryl once a day, so I don’t it will affect her as badly as it did before because we’ll catch it a lot sooner.
Til later…..
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